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Letters Patent No. 92,743, dad July 20, 1869.

IMPROVED IIliIlIlL'Il-"A.'JJION FABRIC OR PAPER CLOTH.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthesame.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. NEWTON, of H01- yoke, Hampdencounty,Commonwealth of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful-Improvement in the Manufacture of Paper-Cloth Material and I do herebydeclare that the following is an exact and clear description thereof.

This invention consists of the manufacture of paperclot-h material in apeculiar manner, so as to give it the appearance of linen on one surfaceor both, as may be required.

I am aware'that there are paper articles, such as collars and'cufi's, inwhich the appearance of a linen surface is given by stamping; but in myinvention, I do not use a paper surface for the imitation, as hasheretofore been. the case, but I use a cloth surface, whether of cottoncloth, cambric, or other similar material suitable for the purpose, andgive this surface animpression from rolls, or from an actual piece oflinen pressed upon it, which said impression is in imitation of linen,thereby obtaining the advantages of a cloth surface, and at the sametime an appearance of linen. I

' I do not confine myself, however, to an impression representing linenalone, as other kinds of fabric may be represented in this way toadvantage.

The operation of this is as follows:

' The paper-cloth material, composed of paper with a cheap cambric orother suitable cloth surface, is first sized over with a mixture ofstarch orother substances,

forming what is kilown as laundry polish, or an enamelled surface. It isthen passed through the stamping-rolls, which gives the cloth surface animpression imitating fine linen.

Instead of the rolls, I- sometimes use a piece of real linen, which ispressed down upon the cloth surface, giving the desired linenappearance.

It is not absolutely necessary to the success of my invention that anenamel should be used over the cloth surface, as when the material isfirst made, the cloth is sufficiently soft and pliable to receive -theimpression of the stamping-rolls, and even afterwards can be made so bywetting.

By this means, I obtain a peculiarly neat imitation of fine linen,obtaining an actual cloth surface at the same time.

This is very advantageous in articles of wearing.- apparel made of papermaterial with cloth surfaces.

Now, having described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire-to secure by Let ters Patent, is

As\a new article of manufacture, a paper-cloth ma- I terial, .in whichthe clotlrsurface is stamped in imitation oflinen or other wovenmaterial, substantially in the manner herein described.

JAMES H. NEWTON.

\Vitnesses It. F. HYDE, E. H. HYDE.

